If you don't know who Paul Lynde was, or Gene Rayburn, then I can only hope you know who Charles Nelson Reilly was. If you don't, then wiki him (Don't let William Shatner hog all the Ham!).
This man, the mayor of a small town in Arkansas, claims he started a new life, under an assumed identity, back in 1980, to escape from Satanic brainwashing by some unknown persons... http://www.4029tv.com/news/14664847/detail.html